CBS2
— Political Ads Begin In Race For Illinois Governor – Derrick Blakley
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/06/05/political-ads-begin-governor-race/
— Lawmakers (Kelly, Schakowsky, Rush, and Danny Davis) Slam Bears For Backing NFL’s New National Anthem Policy
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/06/05/congress-bears-letter-national-anthem-policy-nfl/
— Sessions Argues It’s Necessary To Separate Kids From Parents When Detained At Border
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/06/05/jeff-sessions-separating-children-from-parents-border/
NBC5
— Trump Administration Sending 6 New Prosecutors to Illinois The new resources will aim to “combat violent crime, enforce federal immigration laws and attack the opioid crisis,” according to a release from U.S. Attorney John Lausch Jr., of the northern district of Illinois
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Trump-Administration-Sending-6-New-Prosecutors-to-Illinois-484618321.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers use problems with opioids to push pot.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/can-medical-marijuana-help-combat-illinois-opioid-crisis-484564931.html
ABC7
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: If you disrespect America, anti-Americans give you lots of publicity.
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/man-kneels-during-anthem-at-eagles-less-white-house-event/3565358/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois members of Congress (Kelly, Schakowsky, Rush, and Danny Davis) criticize NFL national anthem policy, ask Bears to rethink stance – Patrick M. O’Connell
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-congress-bears-national-anthem-policy-20180605-story.html
— Rauner hits Pritzker over Blagojevich, Pritzker hits Rauner over ‘failed leadership’ in early TV ads – Rick Pearson (DIERSEN: If you sought a government office or a political office, what would your opponents hit you with? My opponents would hit me with a) all the defeats that Republicans have suffered in Illinois since 2000, b) all of their problems, c) all of your problems, d) all of my problems, and e) all of everyone’s problems.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-bruce-rauner-jb-pritzker-ads-20180605-story.html
— Chicago cop Brian J. Hansen, 51, facing possible firing over offensive Facebook posts abruptly retires – Jeremy Gorner (DIERSEN: Of course, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes would analogize me to Hansen. They would stress that before my GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement offer in 1997 when I was 49 years old, they had given me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take an $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chicago-cop-retires-facebook-posts-20180604-story.html
— Aide dismissive of McCain departs White House – Ken Thomas and Zeke Miller
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-white-house-aide-mccain-leaves-20180605-story.html
— Miss America swimsuit decision riles the man-o-sphere. Let men wear Speedos. – Rex Huppke
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-miss-america-swimsuit-huppke-20180605-story.html
— Emanuel apologizes as CPS sex abuse scandal discussion enters mayoral race – Juan Perez Jr. and John Byrne (DIERSEN: What do your critics/opponents want you to apologize for? At a minimum, my critics/opponents want me to apologize for a) causing all of their problems, b) causing all of your problems, c) causing all of my problems, d) causing all of everyone’s problems, and e) causing all the defeats that Republicans have suffered in Illinois since 2000. My Democrat superiors in the federal government want me to apologize for all the problems that they had a) hiring, retaining, and promoting young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females and b) getting rid of their non-veteran White male employees who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-cps-abuse-reaction-20180604-story.html
— How Bill Clinton cleared a path for Donald Trump – Dana Milbank
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-bill-clinton-trump-milbank-lewinsky-0606-20180605-story.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Tell it straight, Bruce and J.B., about the pain ahead for Illinois – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/illinois-budget-rauner-pritzker-gubernatorial-election/
— Blagojevich formally asks Trump for clemency – Jon Seidel
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/blagojevich-formally-asks-trump-for-a-presidential-commutation/
— Pritzker, Rauner in lockstep: Keep Blagojevich in prison – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/pritzker-rauner-say-no-commutation-for-blagojevich/
— Trump tackles ruling that bars him from blocking Twitter critics – AP (DIERSEN: What do you say to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to get information to use against me?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/donald-trump-twitter-blocking-critics-appeals/
— Medicare finances worsening, could be insolvent in 2026 – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/medicare-social-security-finances-worsening-insolvent-trust-funds/
— 1st Muslim in Congress wants to take on Trump in court – AP (DIERSEN: Democrats shout at Muslims that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things. Democrats will embrace any group that is anti-Republican.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/muslim-ban-keith-ellison-congress-donald-trump-minnesota/
— Politicians who make dirty deals are worse than stick-up men – Phil Kadner
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/politicians-who-make-dirty-deals-are-worse-than-stick-up-men/
— Lowering college tuition helps reduce student debt – Nivine Megahed (DIERSEN: Would anyone have loaned you money to get a college degree? No one would have loaned me money to get a college degree. While I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, I took college preparatory courses notwithstanding the fact that many, if not most, if not virtually everyone at the time viewed me as NOT being “college material.” Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresges in Chicago Heights. I just barely made into the upper 20% of my class, my ACT score was only 24, I was draft bait, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, I had partial red/green color blindness, and I had Osgood-Schlatter disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter_disease).)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/lowering-college-tuition-helps-reduce-student-debt/
DAILY HERALD
— Elgin woman’s ‘Impeach President Donald Trump Now’ sign must come down, city says – Elena Ferrarin
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180605/elgin-womans-impeach-president-donald-trump-now-sign-must-come-down-city-says
— Hultgren, Roskam break with Trump on tariffs – Marni Pyke
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180605/hultgren-roskam-break-with-trump-on-tariffs-
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Americans blast Bears for backing Trump on anthem
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180605/BLOGS02/180609941/bears-blasted-for-backing-trump-on-anthem
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Individuals, organizations, and companies that are the following move to Chicago: anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180605/OPINION/180609953/why-we-chose-chicago-as-our-american-hq
WGN RADIO
— Gov. Bruce Rauner: “I want to thank the Speaker (Madigan).” – MARY SANDBERG BOYLE
http://wgnradio.com/2018/06/05/gov-bruce-rauner-i-want-to-thank-the-speaker-madigan/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Rauner To Consider Bill Applying Human Rights Act To Small Businesses – MAUREEN FOERTSCH MCKINNEY (DIERSEN: Have ever worked for an employer who had 15 or fewer employees? During my entire life, I worked for an employer who had 15 or fewer employees for only about 2 months in 1966.)
http://nprillinois.org/post/rauner-consider-bill-applying-human-rights-act-small-businesses#stream/0
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A measure awaiting Gov. Bruce Rauner’s signature would expand protections in the Human Rights Act to cover workers at businesses with 15 or fewer employees. . . “The deal is that right now in most parts of the state of Illinois discrimination in the workplace is perfectly legal as long as there are 15 employees or fewer in that workplace. I wanted to address that problem to remedy that problem to make sure that discrimination was illegal in every workplace everywhere.)
- LOUIS POST DISPATCH
— Illinois tamps down ‘pension spiking’ for teachers; educators fear disincentive for hiring – Kevin McDermott (DIERSEN: Have you benefited from a pension spike? My critics/opponents would say that I did. They would say that the only reason why my Democrat GAO superiors promoted me to GS-13 in 1986 and gave step increases in subsequent years was to get my “high 3” salary, and therefore my pension, high enough that I would cave in and take their a) early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old if not b) their $25,000 buyout “offer” in 1993 when I was 45 years old.)
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/illinois-tamps-down-pension-spiking-for-teachers-educators-fear-disincentive/article_7855c184-c2a4-52cc-805e-97d4025adc86.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Currently, the often notoriously low pay of Illinois teachers is offset by an end-of-career perk: In the teachers’ final years of employment, school districts routinely hike their salaries to boost their post-retirement pensions, which are paid mostly by the state. Under current law, districts can offer up to 6 percent per year in raises for the final four years of a teacher’s career without incurring extra pension costs for the district.)
WILLIAM J KELLY
— Kelly Exits Illinois Governor Race, Endorses McCann over Rauner
https://www.williamjkelly.org/news/kelly-exits-illinois-governor-race-endorses-mccann-over-rauner
ILLINOIS HOMEPAGE
— Pritzker gives millions to “blue wave” – Raquel Martin (DIERSEN: In your county, in your township/ward, in your municipality, and in your precinct, how will the Democrats spend money to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Republican candidates?)
http://www.illinoishomepage.net/news/capitol-news/pritzker-funnels-millions-to-blue-wave-/1219705426
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Departing from majority, Ives and Breen voted no on budget critics say is filled with ‘gimmicks’
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511445916-departing-from-majority-ives-and-breen-voted-no-on-budget-critics-say-is-filled-with-gimmicks
KANE COUNTY REPORTER
— 3 Kane County legislators voted no on budget critics say is filled with ‘gimmicks’
https://kanecountyreporter.com/stories/511445941-3-kane-county-legislators-voted-no-on-budget-critics-say-is-filled-with-gimmicks
ILLINOIS VALLEY TIMES
— Departing from majority, Bivins voted no on budget critics say is filled with ‘gimmicks’
https://illinoisvalleytimes.com/stories/511445936-departing-from-majority-bivins-voted-no-on-budget-critics-say-is-filled-with-gimmicks
CAPITOL FAX
— Empty bragging or a vow to buy an election?
https://capitolfax.com/2018/06/05/empty-bragging-or-a-vow-to-buy-an-election/
— Rauner denies being “disingenuous” about tax hike
https://capitolfax.com/2018/06/05/rauner-denies-being-disingenuous-about-tax-hike/
— Rauner campaign demands release of all Blagojevich wiretap tapes
https://capitolfax.com/2018/06/05/rauner-campaign-demands-release-of-all-blagojevich-wiretap-tapes/
— Madigan (and Casten) featured in online congressional ad
https://capitolfax.com/2018/06/05/madigan-featured-in-online-congressional-ad/
LIFE SITE NEWS
— U.S. Supreme Court pushes back against rising tide of LGBT extremism – Michael L. Brown
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/u.s.-supreme-court-pushes-back-against-rising-tide-of-lgbt-extremism
THE HILL
— GAO looking into legality of EPA tweet poking Dems – MIRANDA GREEN
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/390774-watchdog-looking-into-epa-legal-violation-over-political-tweet
— Joe Walsh: Republicans will regret Trump’s attacks on FBI – BRETT SAMUELS
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/390717-ex-gop-lawmaker-republicans-will-regret-trumps-attacks-on-fbi
REUTERS
— Employers help pay student loans to attract workers – Andrea Januta (DIERSEN: Of course, that discourages students from graduating debt-free like I did 1n 1970.)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-world-work-studentloans/employers-help-pay-student-loans-to-attract-workers-idUSKCN1J1158
CBS NEWS
— Should your teenager work this summer? Three reasons yes – AP (DIERSEN: What summer jobs did you have? I did yard work and delivered newspapers during the summers of 1962, 1963, and 1964; washed dishes during the summer of 1965; cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline during the summer of 1966; and delivered mail during the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/should-your-teenager-work-this-summer-three-reasons-yes/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Social Security Expected to Dip Into Its Reserves This Year Trustees say Social Security costs expected to exceed total income in 2018 – David Harrison
https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-security-expected-to-dip-into-its-reserves-this-year-1528223245
FED SMITH
— Who’s to Blame? Will Federal Employees be Culpable for Lower Income and Lost Benefits? – Randy Silvey (DIERSEN: From what I see, those who are not federal employees or federal retirees are ever-increasingly united against federal employees and against federal retirees.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/06/05/whos-blame-will-feds-culpable-lower-income-lost-benefits/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: What Can Feds Do? Federal employees can unify and rally against not only the design but the proposed actions with one dominant and cohesive voice. Contact elected officials as Tom has started doing. Elected officials and political parties’ points of view can be swayed and even transformed by substantial and persistent outcries. NARFE has an impressive resume of fighting for and successfully protecting federal income and benefits over several decades, but their numbers aren’t what they used to be. Federal employees concerned about and wishing to preserve their own personal incomes and benefits may well want to check into joining NARFE and other groups defending them. It appears obvious: take action or take what others decide you deserve. If changes come and Federal Employees do not unite against it, they will have no one to blame but themselves.)
PEOPLE’S WORLD
— Second federal workers union, NTEU, sues Trump over executive orders – MARK GRUENBERG
http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/second-federal-workers-union-nteu-sues-trump-over-executive-orders/
